I will say this, I definitely received less bullying at a private school than I believe I would've at the local public school. I never felt like I should underperform in order to fit in better or to avoid bullying. Even at a young age, I understood that the (minimal) bullying I was subjected to was just a manifestation of jealousy, even though I didn't fully understand those words or concepts at that age. In my neighborhood, playing wiffleball with the kids on my street, that was a different story. There was a huge difference between that and my school. I was, in fact, grateful that I didn't have to go the same school as those kids, because I believed then (and now) that the bullying would've been worse.
I would've thought the comment you were responding to was an obvious troll - actually, it was so obvious that it almost bypasses troll and nearly qualifies as satire. C'mon, wake up.
Of course, that one example is the type of thing would actually REQUIRE older guys because of the old code involved. How often, really, does that come up anymore, when viewed as a percentage of all software work?
I don't think he claimed he wouldn't be. But then again, his primary function is not that software engineer - it's Managing Director. So his shelf life may or may not be longer.
Since you agree that in any time period most movies do suck, and some are good and a handful are excellent, you obviously don't fall into the camp that claims the best movies were from when they were about 20 years old. Hence, the -20 years old is irrelevant. I didn't say everyone thinks that way; just the idiots.
Mod parent up.
I'm so tired of hearing the same old BS from every fucking amateur movie critic, "Yeah, movies suck now, the last time they were good was {insert year that speaker was in late-teens/early 20's}"
The most unoriginal thing is that sentence, because in 2002 people 10 years older than you were saying the same thing about 1992, etc. etc.
We actually agree on this point - the upper half has definitely benefited much more from increased computing power and not just in the way you illustrated, although I'm with you that that's a significant part of it. Unfortunately we start to venture into political territory when we discuss "how do you fix this?" - obviously you can't take away the computing power, and stifling further advances would be counter-productive. A more progressive tax structure would seem to provide at least part of the answer but we currently have a majority of even the lower-middle-class voters in this country screaming that we're taxing the rich too heavily.
The Wal-mart discounts, I would argue, are far more tipped towards bulk junk food than bulk bags of apples, though. So if Wal-Mart has ended sales on giant bags of Cheetos, that might be a good thing as well.
If the worse example you can think of is that we can no longer find bags of Halloween candy for 50 cents, I'm not sure that the side effects of increased computing power/productivity are a bad thing for society.
I even heard about it in 1991 from a very reliable source: Johnny Utah
"The beaches are always being closed because of waste spills, right? And surfers are territorial, they stick to certain breaks. If we can get some hair samples, and get a match to a certain beach, we'd know which break the Ex-Presidents surf. You buyin' this?"
If you worked in a parking garage, or have some other reason for standing next to running vehicles in an enclosed space all day, then you might have a valid point. Since you don't, though, that just means you're full of shit.
First, as I mentioned elsewhere here, I don't smoke near non-smokers. I am well aware of how intolerant you people can be.
Yeah, I sympathize, man! I like to spit in public, but I don't spit onto people's clothes or their faces, because I am well aware of how intolerant all those whiny non-spitters can be! Bunch of babies.
Sorry, you've missed the point, so I'll use capital letters to emphasize the pronouns that you ignored, and do it more directly.
If YOU smoke near me, it makes MY clothes and hair stink, and it gets into MY lungs and damages them. I'd say all of that has to do with me. Your chosen habit is disgusting. Deal with it, and the laws that you whine about saying you can't smoke in bars, restaurants, and near entranceways to buildings where all the little trolls congregate outside, because you live in a world that is increasingly more crowded and your habit is not only disgusting, it does affect the rest of us directly.
On the other hand, I champion your right to smoke in the privacy of your own home until your lungs rot away. I have absolutely no problem with that, and if were a lawyer, would represent you in court to defend your right to do so for the rest of your shortened life.
If smoking is so great and such a valuable right that others shouldn't be able to stop you doing it whenever and wherever you please, why do cigarette companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year just to keep convincing people they need to keep doing it?
I actually think this approach might be a reasonable compromise - and smoking pot should be legalized too, but if you want to smoke pot and get certain jobs, you can't. In other words, you're free to do whatever the hell you please in your home as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's well-being or their insurance premiums. Tough to make such an approach consistent, of course, but we may be heading in that direction when you look at all the US states that have made marijuana quasi-legal already.
Remember when people were proud to own USA items? Perhaps it is time to bring that back.
The minute "people" are willing to spend $1500 on a phone that currently costs $550, you'll see iPhones built right here in the good ol' USA. You can be the first. What's that? Not interested? Oh, sorry, never mind then, hypocrite.
On the other hand, not keeping your mouth shut about the piracy, and suddenly announcing you're giving your game away because of all the "piracy" may get you some publicity that will increase your in-app income by even more than continued sales would have done. It's possible, and obviously it's what these guys are banking on.
I don't think he's saying that at all - he's just stating the obvious, that if the vast majority of people "can steal and get away with it", they do. I'm not saying it's right, but it's obviously true. Harumphing about the moral high ground you hold isn't going to change anything.
The really hilarious thing about your comment is that right after you tell him to reevaluate his lack of moral standards, you tell us you download music for free and give us a rationalization for YOUR downloading! "It's not okay to download stuff for free - except for the stuff that I say it's okay for." Gimmie a break.
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I will say this, I definitely received less bullying at a private school than I believe I would've at the local public school. I never felt like I should underperform in order to fit in better or to avoid bullying. Even at a young age, I understood that the (minimal) bullying I was subjected to was just a manifestation of jealousy, even though I didn't fully understand those words or concepts at that age. In my neighborhood, playing wiffleball with the kids on my street, that was a different story. There was a huge difference between that and my school. I was, in fact, grateful that I didn't have to go the same school as those kids, because I believed then (and now) that the bullying would've been worse.
I would've thought the comment you were responding to was an obvious troll - actually, it was so obvious that it almost bypasses troll and nearly qualifies as satire. C'mon, wake up.
Of course, that one example is the type of thing would actually REQUIRE older guys because of the old code involved. How often, really, does that come up anymore, when viewed as a percentage of all software work?
I don't think he claimed he wouldn't be. But then again, his primary function is not that software engineer - it's Managing Director. So his shelf life may or may not be longer.
You're off by a factor of 100, but still, 30 cents is pretty cheap.
Since you agree that in any time period most movies do suck, and some are good and a handful are excellent, you obviously don't fall into the camp that claims the best movies were from when they were about 20 years old. Hence, the -20 years old is irrelevant. I didn't say everyone thinks that way; just the idiots.
Mod parent up. I'm so tired of hearing the same old BS from every fucking amateur movie critic, "Yeah, movies suck now, the last time they were good was {insert year that speaker was in late-teens/early 20's}" The most unoriginal thing is that sentence, because in 2002 people 10 years older than you were saying the same thing about 1992, etc. etc.
thanks to you, we now know how painfully unfunny things get when a nerd thinks he's channeling Jimmy Kimmel.
We actually agree on this point - the upper half has definitely benefited much more from increased computing power and not just in the way you illustrated, although I'm with you that that's a significant part of it. Unfortunately we start to venture into political territory when we discuss "how do you fix this?" - obviously you can't take away the computing power, and stifling further advances would be counter-productive. A more progressive tax structure would seem to provide at least part of the answer but we currently have a majority of even the lower-middle-class voters in this country screaming that we're taxing the rich too heavily.
The Wal-mart discounts, I would argue, are far more tipped towards bulk junk food than bulk bags of apples, though. So if Wal-Mart has ended sales on giant bags of Cheetos, that might be a good thing as well.
If the worse example you can think of is that we can no longer find bags of Halloween candy for 50 cents, I'm not sure that the side effects of increased computing power/productivity are a bad thing for society.
I even heard about it in 1991 from a very reliable source: Johnny Utah
"The beaches are always being closed because of waste spills, right? And surfers are territorial, they stick to certain breaks. If we can get some hair samples, and get a match to a certain beach, we'd know which break the Ex-Presidents surf. You buyin' this?"
True... they were way better for awhile.
C.M.S. (that's completely-missed-sarcasm... by you.)
If you worked in a parking garage, or have some other reason for standing next to running vehicles in an enclosed space all day, then you might have a valid point. Since you don't, though, that just means you're full of shit.
First, as I mentioned elsewhere here, I don't smoke near non-smokers. I am well aware of how intolerant you people can be.
Yeah, I sympathize, man! I like to spit in public, but I don't spit onto people's clothes or their faces, because I am well aware of how intolerant all those whiny non-spitters can be! Bunch of babies.
Sorry, you've missed the point, so I'll use capital letters to emphasize the pronouns that you ignored, and do it more directly.
If YOU smoke near me, it makes MY clothes and hair stink, and it gets into MY lungs and damages them. I'd say all of that has to do with me. Your chosen habit is disgusting. Deal with it, and the laws that you whine about saying you can't smoke in bars, restaurants, and near entranceways to buildings where all the little trolls congregate outside, because you live in a world that is increasingly more crowded and your habit is not only disgusting, it does affect the rest of us directly.
On the other hand, I champion your right to smoke in the privacy of your own home until your lungs rot away. I have absolutely no problem with that, and if were a lawyer, would represent you in court to defend your right to do so for the rest of your shortened life.
I'll bet you've a lot of insufferably bad habits compared to my smoking, but you'll not see me on a pedestal complaining about them.
Probably because his habits don't make your clothes and hair smell like a rotting ashtray.
If smoking is so great and such a valuable right that others shouldn't be able to stop you doing it whenever and wherever you please, why do cigarette companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year just to keep convincing people they need to keep doing it?
I actually think this approach might be a reasonable compromise - and smoking pot should be legalized too, but if you want to smoke pot and get certain jobs, you can't. In other words, you're free to do whatever the hell you please in your home as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's well-being or their insurance premiums. Tough to make such an approach consistent, of course, but we may be heading in that direction when you look at all the US states that have made marijuana quasi-legal already.
Wow, it took 7 whole minutes for a fallacious slippery-slope comment to appear. It used to take a lot less; you must be slipping.
Remember when people were proud to own USA items? Perhaps it is time to bring that back.
The minute "people" are willing to spend $1500 on a phone that currently costs $550, you'll see iPhones built right here in the good ol' USA. You can be the first. What's that? Not interested? Oh, sorry, never mind then, hypocrite.
I'm probably a hypocrite.
"Probably" seems like it's not a strong enough word in this sentence.
Loose?? Seriously??
On the other hand, not keeping your mouth shut about the piracy, and suddenly announcing you're giving your game away because of all the "piracy" may get you some publicity that will increase your in-app income by even more than continued sales would have done. It's possible, and obviously it's what these guys are banking on.
I don't think he's saying that at all - he's just stating the obvious, that if the vast majority of people "can steal and get away with it", they do. I'm not saying it's right, but it's obviously true. Harumphing about the moral high ground you hold isn't going to change anything.
The really hilarious thing about your comment is that right after you tell him to reevaluate his lack of moral standards, you tell us you download music for free and give us a rationalization for YOUR downloading! "It's not okay to download stuff for free - except for the stuff that I say it's okay for." Gimmie a break.